HIV remains a public health concern in Tanzania and other Eastern and Southern African countries. Estimates show that there were about 1.4 million people living with HIV in Tanzania in the year 2013. HIV is a generalized epidemic in Tanzania with heterosexual transmission being the main route of transmission. Recently, however, there has been growing concern on the potential role of the key pop...

New and little-known terrestrial slugs are dealt with based on extensive collections made in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) 1993-2007. This account deals primarily with larger species from forests in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. In Veronicellidae, Pseudoveronicella Germain, 1908 is extended to Tanzania by P. (Hoffmannia) zootoca tanzaniensis subsp. n. in the Udzungwa Mts. I...

BACKGROUND Scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) to 80% of men aged 15-49 within five years could avert 3.4 million new HIV infections in Eastern and Southern Africa by 2025. Since 2009, Tanzania and Zimbabwe have rapidly expanded VMMC services through different delivery (fixed, outreach or mobile) and intensity (routine services, campaign) models. This review describes the moda...

The continuity for discovery and production of new chemicals, allied products, and uses has currently resulted into generation of recent form of contaminants known as Emerging Contaminants (ECs). Once in the aquatic environment ECs are carcinogenic and cause other threats to both human's and animals' health. Due to their effects this study was aimed at investigating research trends of ECs in Ta...

Title: Self-medication among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at Makongoro health centre in Mwanza, Tanzania: A challenge to health systems. Authors: Karol Marwa ([email protected]) Agnes Njalika ([email protected]) Deodatus Ruganuza ([email protected]) Deogratias Katabalo ([email protected]) Erasmus Kamugisha ([email protected]) Version: 6 Date: 09 Oct 2017 Author’s res...

The critical first step for the regionalization analysis was to use the description of the Kenya smallholder dairy environments and extrapolate those conditions over Uganda and Tanzania. This kind of evaluation of other countries would not have been possible using the traditional Jaetzold and Schmidt agro-ecological zone map as their zonation scheme was designed specifically for Kenya and was n...

This study makes assessment of the effects host country macroeconomic factors on performance cross listed firms in East Africa. It uses quarterly time series from March 2010 to December 2020. The used stock prices five Kenyan companies that are markets Uganda and Tanzania. overall model capturing impact average stocks shows interest rate exerts positive significant market performance, while, in...

Mobile technology offers an unprecedented growth opportunity for banking industry in Tanzania. As the economy continues to prosper, increasingly affluent consumers and underbanked segments create demand for new financial products and services. Many consumers in Tanzania have mobile phones, but not bank accounts. Therefore, the mobile channel presents an effective way to connect them to the nati...

doi:10.4102/ojvr.v81i2.723 http://www.ojvr.org Screening for foot-and-mouth disease virus in livestockwildlife interface areas of Tanzania Authors: Emma Peter1 Christopher J. Kasanga1 Raphael Sallu2 Mkama Mathias2 Mmeta Yongolo2 Misheck Mulumba3 Ezekia Ranga4 Philemon N. Wambura1 Mark M. Rweyemamu1 Affiliations: 1Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance, Sokoine University of...

doi:10.4102/ojvr.v81i2.728 http://www.ojvr.org Authors: Christopher J. Kasanga1 Rahana Dwarka2 Gaothlele Thobokwe3 Jemma Wadsworth4 Nick J. Knowles4 Misheck Mulumba5 Ezekia Ranga6 Jimis Deve11 Cornelius Mundia10 Patrick Chikungwa8 Laureta Joao9 Raphael Sallu7 Mmeta Yongolo7 Philemon N. Wambura1 Mark M. Rweyemamu1 Donald P. King4 Affiliations: 1Southern African Centre for Infectious Diseases Sur...